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 * Weblog (Blob; Weblogging; Blogging). **Most easily described as ‘ a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page’…blog are arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first” entries … the following supports the claim of blogs as a “new literacy” – and makes perfect sense…”A true-born child of the computer medium, the weblog may have its roots in the research journal, the ship’s log, the private diary and the newspapers, all at the same time. But it is like a mongrel hunting the dark alleys of the digital city, the weblog is nothing if not adaptive and unique at the same time. No fancy thoroughbred this…but a bastard child of all personal writing, breeding wildly as it meets others of its ilk online.” (Mortensen forthcoming).
 * Wiki. “ **Wikis uses open-editing, collaborative writing software – a “wiki” – that allows users to edit content online as they read. A wiki is about as easy to set up as a weblog. There are various free wiki hosting sites where one can register and establish a wiki for the purposes of a collaborative writing project. . Bob Godwin-Jones (2003: 15) says the goal of wiki sites is ‘to become a shared repository of knowledge, with the knowledge base growing over time’…For a quick introduction to wikis see, for example, the entries on wikis in Wikipedia at en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki; or in //How Stuff Works// at howstuffworks.com/wiki.htm
 * Wikipedia. **Wikipedia  is a [|free],[|[5]] web-based [|multilingual] [|encyclopedia] [|project] supported by the [|non-profit] [|Wikimedia Foundation]. Its name is a [|portmanteau] of the words //[|wiki]// (a technology for creating collaborative [|websites], from the [|Hawaiian] word //wiki//, meaning "quick") and //encyclopedia//. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in the [|English Wikipedia]) have been written [|collaboratively] by [|volunteers] around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.[|[6]] Launched in January 2001 by [|Jimmy Wales] and [|Larry Sanger],[|[7]] it is currently the largest and most [|popular] general [|reference work] on the [|Internet].[|[3]][|[8]][|[9]][|[10]] 